Odobenoh no i went browsing second-hand thinkpads 
the 12.5" X270 is so cute 
Edit: ooh the X280 
Edit 2: X280 is on its way 
no thoughts head empty
thats why i need a thinkpad
My first ever computer of my very own was a ThinkPad[1] but I haven't owned another one ever since. I should really fix that.
[1] it had Win 98, even though XP was already out at the time
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Edit: fixed that
second-hand thinkpad ordered
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Edit: it's on its way 
Now comes the most important part of buying a new device: thinking of what to name it while waiting for it to arrive!
Edit: So it's a really small ThinkPad that I intend to use as a travel laptop. Therefore naming it after a migratory hummingbird would be fitting. It shall be: Eugenes after the Rivoli's hummingbird!
The saga so far:
Ordered an X280 1080p 16GB 
Received an X280 768p 16GB 
Listing was incorrect 
Seller has another X280 but that one has 8GB RAM and an ANSI keyboard 
They say they'll switch out the displays of the two machines so that I can finally have an X280 1080p 16GB 
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Update:
They did it!
I just received the laptop, I now have a ThinkPad X280 1080p 16GB with an ISO keyboard! 
Buying a decent used ThinkPad for 140€ feels really nice
Buying a new 1TB SSD for it for 70€ feels less nice 
256GB is too small and 512GB is simply not good value where I looked
Finally, full size arrow keys!
It's been 84 years.
Now, why couldn't they do this for the IdeaPad line? 
Speaking of keyboard layouts, Fn and Ctrl are swapped on this ThinkPad compared to my Lenovo Flex 
Edit: ah, there's an option in uefi setup to swap Fn and Ctrl!
charging muh laptop with USB-C ✨
the future is now
I love my Bloq Mayús
this thonkpad has crossed many international borders to start its second life
Okay, so this ThinkPad has a MicroSD slot 
I'm tempted to use the 1TB SSD I bought for it as an external SSD instead, buy a 256GB for the laptop and keep movies and music on an SD card 
Holey sheet... So I've had this ThinkPad for a week and I kept experiencing constant micro-freezes of the display of 1-2 seconds, no matter what Linux distro or desktop I tried.
I think I finally found a fix. It's caused by something called Panel Self Refresh. I disabled it with this kernel parameter:i915.enable_psr=0
It seems to be working well now 
All devices have their own quirks. On my other Lenovo laptop I had to specify the BSSID for either the 2.4 or 5GHz wifi signal, otherwise it kept jumping between the two and re-authenticating due to a bug.
I think I've settled on how I want this ThinkPad X280 to be set up. Initially I wanted to do the same as my other laptop; openSUSE with my janky rEFInd config. But then I thought about how I intend to use it as a travel laptop. See, I'm usually not a fan of disk encryption but if I'm going to be taking this machine with me to a lot of places... So I decided to encrypt. Which would be even more janky with rEFInd and I'm not a fan of GRUB so I opted for systemd-boot which is still experimental in openSUSE but seems to work well enough 
I'm so touchscreen brained
I keep poking at the display of this ThinkPad expecting things to happen 
I did it again with the emoji selector while writing thisss 
12.5" ThinkPad with 70% battery vs. 20Ah power bank @ 65W (no I'm not saying 20 000 mAh, that's redundant)
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Update: it brought it from 10% up to 90% which is better than what I was expecting!
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Intrusive thoughts: but what if you had a 40Ah power bank owo
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Update: it brought it from 10% up to 90% which is better than what I was expecting!
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Intrusive thoughts: but what if you had a 40Ah power bank owo
Making myself at home in the new-to-me laptop ✨ 
Important implementation detal: Copepod.
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I can't decide whether I should put the Linux sticker in place of the Intel one like on my other laptop or I should keep the Intel sticker and put the Linux one above it. I don't want three stickers in a row.
Very important implementation detail 
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Edit: for now I put it above it so I still have the option to change it later
Two months with a ThinkPad.
My verdict:
Why don't consumer laptops have nice matte screens like this??
The urge to put a second SSD into the spare WWAN slot is stro-- wait, it's what key??
I guess this would also work, provided that I can find a 2230 NVMe that's actually B+M key...
...wow
I found actual 2242 B+M key NVMe 
And it's PCIe 3.0 x2 which is exactly what should work in that slot
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Edit: also ordered 
Meaning, that B-key slot is indeed PCIe! Which is apparently not obvious because some laptops use SATA for their WWAN cards...
Now to find a 512GB card that works in there 
So... this is supposedly an OEM SSD taken out of a laptop but is technically new. As per the SMART data:
Data Units Read: 308,889 [158 GB]
Data Units Written: 352,301 [180 GB]
Power Cycles: 30
Power On Hours: 3
So what's that 180GB? Factory R/W testing?
As per Reddit, the WWAN slots support:
SATA and PCIe in T470/TP25/X270
only PCIe SSDs in T480/T480s/X280
(mine is X280)
Clep Karb @ Home 🏡My biggest fear when getting my Framework is still running out of space too fast 
@karb I'm taking it slowly
Spud
Halfy!@odoben I loove My Doguments
Foxbrush Tailwag@odoben needs more Foxbrush
@FoxbrushTailwag Needs more me finally making it to EF 
Xoa Gray@odoben Fun stuff. :)
@odoben @panda_paco I love that sticker! :)
@xoagray And there's a matching enamel pin!
But the biggest question is... can you boot from it?! 
We'll soon find out whether you can boot from an SSD inserted into the "WWAN" modem slot on a thonkpad x280
Edit: You can!